The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Lithuania

Noris

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Originated in Lithuania. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1976 from the Pavlovsk Experimental Station of the Vavilov Institute in Russia. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Noris Lithuania, by 1976
    • Seed parent Osenee Polosatoe
    • Pollen parent McIntosh Canada, 1811

Sources

  1. Noris (accession 1976 - 104), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october).
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).